Kobus Eloff: Jack-of-all-trades achieves success
Twenty years ago, when the Academy of Science of South Africa was established, Jacobus (Kobus) Nicolaas Eloff, then already in his mid-fifties, was invited, as...
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Bees can make farming better
Dr Ruan Veldtman is an ecological entomologist, which means that he has a keen interest in the positive and negative role of insects in the...
Meet Sinikiwe Simakani
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Sinikiwe Simakani, a Masters student at Stellenbosch University, is passionate about closing the gap between science and the public. She is currently working on a...
Fast, cheap calories may make city birds fat and sick
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by Phoebe Barnard via The Conversation Change. It can creep up on us so gently that we hardly even notice it. Yet the pace of...
West Coast’s Heaviside’s dolphins are all family
The sight of an albino Heaviside’s dolphin off Hondeklipbaai during one of her sampling trips along the West Coast is one that she will always...
The splash of dignity
In episode 12 of The Science Inside, we looked at what it takes to bring water and sanitation services to the people of South Africa....